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witnessed before in a basketball game. >> and then, a standing ovation has ware is wheeled from the court and taken to the hospital. >> i didn't ever think in a million years i would see something like that. and that happened especially to a guy like kevin ware. i was completely devastated. >> but he's a brave young man because all he kept saying is win the game. >> louisville did win the game, beating duke 85-63, advancing to the final four atlanta, not far from ware's high school. >> real proud of our guys, disappointed for kevin, but we're getting him home to atlanta. >> thanks for watching everyone around the world starts now. welcome to "around the world." i'm suszanne malveaux. at least begin in north korea
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again. tensions increasing in isolated countries and neighboring south korea. north korean leader kim jong-un wants a nuclear arsenal and his party called it a top priority. >> the country already has declared war and american fighter jets are in the region. we're going to have a report from south korea in just a moment. and in brazil, police have arrested two men and are looking for a third after a horrifying attack involving tourist. police are saying that men boarded a tour bus and ordered everyone off except a male and female tourist. >> also robbed, the man was beaten, he was robbed too. not saying where the victims were visiting from at the moment we have a live report from brazil coming up a little bit later in the program. doctors say that the health of nelson mandela is improving. the former president, he's being treated for a long infection. this is the second time in a month that he's been admitted to
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a hospital. >> mandela's lung problems go way back to his 27 years in prison. it is the largest paper in the uk. but not typical reading material. >> i was there for many years and the sun was out there on the newsstands, one of the newspaper's defining features have always been pictures of topless women on page three, they're called the page three girls. but they have called more strongly for an end to the practice. >> their owner rupert murdock, he may actually be changing it up a little bit. nick, explain what the controversy is and if it's going to actually get rid of the nude pho photos. >> reporter: it's been a cultural thing in england for decades. it's been an institution in the united kingdom amongst some part of the english public.
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we spoke to taxi drivers today who are very fond of it, that it is in many ways part of what they read on the way in to work every day. let's listen to what people have had to say. this inside page has kept sales perky since 1970. page three, nude among the news. a decades old institution to some. >> it's nice to look at, yeah. >> it's there, why not? >> >> reporter: to others, decades out of date. now the internet gives people whatever they want and struggling newspapers are trying to lure women readers not offend them enough so that the sun's troubled owner is thinking again. rupert murdock reeling from phone hacking scandals tweeted recently that he might replace page three nude picture s
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fashionista's. >> it's from the 1970s, and the girls back then were very young. they're not that much older now, but it really feels very outdated that kind of sexism. >> reporter: page three could launch women's other talents. ♪ i want to feel your body >> sam fox sang her way to the top of the pops after dropping her top. one former model who page three defineded tells us it's time it went. >> in england i will always be known as linda lizzard page three girl. and things have moved so far with the internet and everything else that i don't think we need that in our national newspapers anymore. >> the sun has toyed with this idea before but now amid scandal might want a fresh start. michael and suzanne, that's really the issue here, the international newspapers had closed their title nudes of the world after a scandal
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involveding the hacking of mr. celebrity phones, in some ways replacing page 3 may give them a boost. sales plummeting across the board and i think many are concerned too, the world's paper mostly sells itself in the wake of its port coverage, if it lost that page three, that could really affect sales. >> samantha fox, you're making me feel old. >> nick, do we know how many women actually read the paper? is it very popular young women? or do they really need to recruit women? is that part of it? >> reporter: 45% of their reader ship is women, but there's a lucrative market among women here, and perhaps some of the calculus here behind rupert
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murdock's piece is that they don't want to ward off women that might sometimes be offensive to them. tensions increasing in the korean peninsula, the north continuing to threaten war in the south of course getting ready for the attack, the united states certainly caught up in the middle of all of this. >> that is the thing, the u.s. caught up in this. deploying stealth fighter jets to the region is the next step. south korea had warned the north that there would be a strong response to any attack. >> and so the people inside north korea, they are certainly wondering what is going to happen next. a lot of tension there as well. here's the story. >> reporter: michael, and suzanne, what we're seeing here on the korean peninsula are these ongoing war games, but it's very difficult to tell what is an illusion and what's reality. for people who are inside the
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hermit kingdom, it's anything but -- consider this, return fire. [ speaking in native language ] kim song min broadcasting a message of democracy to north korea. hoping they're listening to radios like these that south korean activists have smuggled into the communist country, he talks to his north korean sources every day. >> reporter: the average north korean you think wants a war? >> translator: yes, they do, he says, they think they will win a war and escape their difficult lives through water of. >> reporter: kim points out that the people don't get any information except for the state controlled media. but they know the regime will lose the fight. the international community, especially the united states thinks of kim jong-un as a mad man? is he a mad man?
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he's so young he's naive, he thinks that this will bring the u.s. to the bargaining table. we can't show the faces of these men because they fear the regime. they work at an online news sight. >> the sources we're hearing from are exhausted. they're exhausted by the drills that are happening, they'. >> right now i think what you're seeing jong-un trying to inspire the masses and adhere to his leadership. >> reporter: is kim jong-un talking to americans or is he talking to north koreans. >> he's talking to north koreans.
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that's a concern that's also being echoed at the pentagon that there will be some sort of poor decision, either by north korea or south korea and that will trip this entire region and the united states into a major conflict. michael, suzanne? >> thank you, well you might want why south korea matters so much to the united states most look back to the fight with communist north korea 50 years ago. >> there's even more, south korea is no longer the poor nation it was 60 years ago. it's now a leading informer in things like microchips. >> they produce many of the products americans use every day in your homes, your tv sets, appliances, cell phones, cars we drive, all kinds of things and they're aggressive investors in
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so called brick countries, russia, israel and china. so it puts them into a -- autos and electronics are used around the world. here's what we're looking at around the world this hour. >> fierce fighting in afghanistan. it is something u.s. special forces of course, they're used to that. but our own crew was caught in the middle of one of those gun battles. we got an exclusive story up next. also, pope francis delivers his first easter mass and shows once again he is a friend of the people, holding babies and stopping to kiss a disabled child in the crowd. >> we'll have that. plus you'll never walk into a glass door thinking it was open. you got to check this out. it's actually kind of funny. this happened to a thief, we're going to tell you how it happened and actually how he got away too. >> i tell you, you see this, he didn't get away. ♪
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that buried dozens of workers. >> they were working inside a gold mine owned by a chinese company. cold temperatures affecting search dogs' sense of smell. the company says they don't know the cause of the disaster yet. in india, major decisions being handed down regarding prescription drugs. a major pharmaceutical company wants to market -- >> the indian supreme court. this is a landmark decision really, rejected the drugmaker's patent application and that means the generic version of the medication will continue to be produced and this saves poor people thousands of dollars. >> to give you the sense of the difference in cost to make this drug, it's cancer drug, the name brand drug is cost at least $35,000 a year. the generic version only about $2,500. it is huge. got one of the biggest generic
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drugs industries actually in the world. >> my hometown, australia, he's running ow as a thief, he's trying to get away and he goes into the glass door. >> amazingly, if you take a look at this, this is after he snatched this woman's purse, he crashes into the door, he collapsed but then he manages to get away with some other guy. >> yeah some other guy showed up, he said he had a gun, the thief took off with him. but he's going to have a headache. and he not surprisingly left blood at the scene so the dna guys are at work. >> and not to mention, somebody's probably patching him out because that was pretty bad. of course, easter, did you celebrate easter? it was a wonderful weekend. it was fantastic and we're keeping our eye on the pope. he is different, very down to earth. people have been following and
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he's really been leaving a lasting impression on all of us, one of these, very, very pointed and very touching. >> yeah, have a look at this. >> very touching moment there. while the pope was creating people yesterday, a physically disabled boy was passed to him and pope francis holding and kissing the boy there and francis's face lighting up with joy. >> good to see you both. >> he's very excited. >> good to see you. how are you? >> tell us what happened, how it unfolded. >> very unexpected. i went in with my son and left the rest of my family in the crowd and there was a very kind usher named augustineo that seated us and i think he got it
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in his head that dominique needed to be kissed by the pope. so he actually repositioned us to the corner of the aisles and when the pope came by, he actually never turned and looked at us. we really lifted him up and hi never looked at else and he apologized and i thought that was great, it's fine. but then when we got wished that he was coming around the second time, he basically half held him with me and the ushers, the other ushers really got in on the action and they really got the pope mobile to stop because he looked like he was going to pass again. and then augustineo just raised him up. >> what does that mean for you? >> really, it feels like a gift, like a little kiss from god, just fin that crowd and have yor child kissed by the pope. what a thrill it was.
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what an easter sunday. >> what does dominique think about it? what did he get out of it? >> dominique is incredibly sweet and down to earth. he just says it's great. he just smiles at you. he's very down to earth, there's not very much more than that, he understands everything. but he's very simple. >> nice to see you both. very, very touching. >> it was very touching for us. >> i'm sure. >> thank you very much. afghanistan, you wouldn't even know that the war is winding down there with firefights like these still going on and our own crews caught in the middle of one of those gun battles. up next.
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the war in afghanistan rages on. one of our crews actually got a rare, pretty close up look at a gun battle that was taking place. >> maybe a little closer than
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they would like, listen to this. >> that's ma ea reporter and a r got an intense look at the fighting that still goes on there in afghanistan. take a look. [ gun fire ] >> reporter: as rounds of gun fire ring out. u.s. -- they're the military's elite and this is what they're trained to do. they don't just fight back, they hunt down the enemy. we come under enemy fire less than 400 meters away. an incoming round flies close overhead. >> [ bleep ]. >> reporter: we take cover behind a mud brick wall. >> keep going! >> with the attack coming from
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three different directions, special forces spread out across open farm land. >> right on the backside. right on the backside. >> reporter: their only cover in this fertile valley, low lying ditches and sparse undergrowth. >> all right, that's all we're going to do. we're going to continue out this [ bleep ] river bed until we get to the left side. >> let's go straight there. let's roll. >> for a brief moment they pause, as special forces operator targets the enemy firing position with a 40 millimeter grenade launcher, but the firefight rages on. we got intelligence that there was an ied set in this area. we have come into these open fields. and they're returning fire. we do know that there's a taliban strong house at the base of these mountains. with enemy fire gets closer,
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special forces are exposed as they move along the banks of the river. a soldier reloads preparing for another assault. >> yeah, move in. >> reporter: we run towards the compound where insurgents staged one of their attacks. >> push it down this way, all right? let's go. >> reporter: they quickly secure the area, not knowing what's behind these walls. >> somebody looking back that way? >> nope. >> reporter: movement inside has everyone on high alert. >> somebody just ran across the door. >> yep. >> and back again. >> reporter: soldiers locate the enemy firing point which spent cartridge cases littering the ground. >> there are taliban which they probably are, so they don't necessarily live in these areas, so when they go into other people's come pounds ee's compt some intel.
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>>. >> reporter: they're searching for the enemy who have made their escape. but they have already vanished, blending back into the community and the landscape. >> i admire their resiliency and their conviction, for sure. there's a degree of mutual respect, but that doesn't mean we want to kill them any less. >> reporter: while america's war is finishing up soon, these brave soldiers know it's yet to be won. >> so michael, you and i were talking about during that piece, you have actually experienced something of -- a bullet coming that close. what are some of the signs, really the noise, right. >> you can hear it there she says there's been incoming round, i have been in several situations where you hear a crack. it's not pop, pop, pop. when she's running along, and says the incoming round, that has a distinct crack. and it's about the bullet flying through the air.
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and i would be hitting the deck as soon as i heard that. that's very frightening and it could be a terrifying situation to be in the middle of some of that and you want to have those guys close by. >> excellent reporting. >> and mark phillips, the photographer, always got to give the photographer a shoutout. safety concerns in brazil, tourists allegedly robbed and beaten on a security bus. also a papal visit as well. are you flo? yes. is this the thing you gave my husband? well, yeah, yes. the "name your price" tool. you tell us the price you want to pay, and we give you a range of options to choose from. careful, though -- that kind of power can go to your head. that explains a lot. yo, buddy! i got this. gimme one, gimme one, gimme one! the power of the "name your price" tool. only from progressive.
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>> while she's worked for several new york nonprofit organizations, including the jfk library. the bad news out of cypress might not be over yet. you might remember the country just struck a deal to bail out its failed banking system. it's going to cost some of the biggest deposit forors more tha% of their saving. >> if the bank needs more cash, it could take another 22% on top of that. those with the most in the bank could lose 60% of their accounts if things don't get better fast enough. >> can you imagine? we're going to go to myanmar, the country's shift from strict authoritarian rule has brought about an amazing change. private newspapers. >> for the first time in almost 50 years, private daily newspapers are now being sold in the country starting today. it really puts an end to the state monopoly, until recently,
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reporters in myanmar, they face some of the harshest restrictions in the world. >> i heard that all of these editions from all of those newspapers that went on sale sold out within a couple of hours. >> there you go. back to the story out of brazil. police say they have arrested two men after a rape and robbery involving two tourists. it happened on a minibus, this is in rio. >> very worrying development. chester donald is here, tell us about what happened and the arrests that we have heard about. >> reporter: well, michael, we know two tourists, foreign tourists got on a minibus in rio de janeiro on sunday morning, and shortly afterward, three men got on board and they forced the other passengers off and they drove them around for hours. that's really when the nightmare
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began. the woman was raped repeatedly, the man was handcuffed and somehow tied to the bus and beaten while this was going on. both of them had their credit cards stolen and they were used repeatedly in gas stations and atm machines and this lasted about six hours until they were finally dumped in a city about 50 kilometers or about 30 miles away from rio de janeiro, police have arrested two people, they're looking for a third. but this is a horrific crime that has upset people on a very personal level obviously. but this city is preparing for some pretty high profile events coming up. the olympic games in 2016, but the next couple of months, they're going to be receiving pope francis, this is going to be his first big trip abroad and he's going to celebrate world youth day in rio de janeiro and they expecting billions of young people from around the city and
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around the world. so this city is trying to clean up it's image with a very serious crime problem. >> how common is this? this is a horrific crime that' e's occurred, are people saying this is shocking or does this happen often? >> violent crime is a historic problem in rio stay jde janeiro what is the big problem is the d drug violence. they are large amounts of drug violence. so they have sent police breaking up those gangs. but they have daily theft and robbery, it's not uncommon to be robbed on public transportation, on the bus. but rape doesn't really happen on the streets. it isn't more of a problem or
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less of a problem than in my other countries, just the crime, the theft, even robbery at gunpoint, that is something that rio has been dealing with for years and they really just haven't gotten rid of the problem yet. coming up, he's known as the john stewart of egypt, but he is not laughing after being detained and interrogated for hours, his crime, insulting the british president. so...how'd it go? well, dad, i spent my childhood living with monks learning the art of dealmaking. you've mastered monkey-style kung fu? no. priceline is different now. you don't even have to bid. master hahn taught you all that? oh, and he says to say (translated from cantonese) "you still owe him five bucks." your accent needs a little work.
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in cairo, a man some call the jon stewart of egypt, he has now been arrested. the host of the tv show known for poking fun at the president but also islam. >> in the midst of politics and
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religion in egypt. on how the egypt shan government thinks his criticism went too far and what they did. >> reporter: a welcoming more suited for a rock star than a wanted man. egyptian satirist arrives in -- the prosecutor summoned the comedian for -- here, yousef pokes fun at morsi speaking english. >> yes, gas and alcohol don't mix. [ speaking in native language ]
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>> millions tune in weekly to watch the jon stewart of middle east. he's even met the man he calls his main inspiration. but his popularity by pushing the boundaries of free speech comes with a price. yousef faces more than a dozen lawsuits over his show which the prosecutor says is insulting not only to just the president but to islam itself and yousef is a practicing muslim. >> you want to go to pliz? you want to go to prison? oh, yeah? so cool! more importantly i just want to thank the people that stood by me. >> reporter: recently many people critical of the morsi government have either been brought in for arrest for questioning. the question is now will the morsi government get away with it? >> whether they release him today or they keep him, this makes him look incredibly bad
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and can only be interpreted as harassment and trying to stifle any freedom of speech in the country with regard to the presidency or indeed the authoritarian general. >> despite the pressure, yousef has remained defiant throughout. yousef was released after his questioning about the prosecutor. a free man after posting a $2,200 bond. >> keeping an eye on that story. meanwhile there is a new deadly strain of bird flu in china. and the question is, could we actually see it here in the united states? >> people are wondering. also a professional golfer takes his pants off to make a great shot. yeah, you got that right. >> i really do like this story. we're going to show you what happened, up next. dentures. i love kiwis.
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>> terrible pictures there. china making steps to cool down it's red hot housing markets and top a housing bubble that some think may seriously damage the economy. people who live alone are now banned from buying a seconds home. others trying to buy a second home already required to putmore money down. shanghai is taking similar measures as well. >> in china the cost to buy a home has doubled in the past five years. now saudi arabia, if you want to do some online video chatting there may in the future be no app for that. the country's communication agency block that kind -- >> allow the government to monitor the messages that are being sent. social media and instant messaging have been widely used in the arab world in the past years, especially during social unrest. >> people in saudi arabia very worried about that. and here's something you
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tonight see every day, a golfer without his pants. turns out while playing in a european tournament, a golfer removes his pants. >> the shot that landed near the water hazard on the sloping side of the green there, so he actually had to stand in the water to play the ball and so he took it all off. >> he took his shoes off, and he thought, oh, it's a little bit deeper than that, then he takes his pants off. >> you said he has great legs. i'm not going there. >> for everybody, he's not a bad looking guy. >> he makes the shot. but he will have his place in television golf history. he needs to learn how to run a little bit. you wouldn't want to be wearing bad underwear, that's for sure. >> he's not a shy guy. >> he obviously knew he had on
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the clean undies that day. in china, two men have died after being infected with a strain of the bird flu that we have actually not even seen in humans. >> this thing is called h7n9 strain. >> michael, suzanne, there's a lot we don't know about this particular strain of bird flu, because it is so new. but in many ways it looks very much like other strains of bird flu, pneumonia, difficult fi breathing, these are some of the symptoms these people have had. as far as it coming to the united states. the experts i spoke to said they are not terribly worried and here's why. bird flu does not carry well person to person, we have seen in this other strains of bird flu as well. and in this strain, the doctors have spoken to close contacts of the victims, the people who got sick and the people who died and
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they found that none of those contacts actually got bird flu. that tells us it does not spread easily from person to person. suzanne? >> thank you, elizabeth. one of the quality labels has been linked with sweat shops in south america. we're going to tell you more when we come back.
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in north korea, tensions increase. and the country has already declared war. now american fighter jets, they are in the region. in south africa, doctors say the health of nelson mandela is now improving. the former president, he's being treated for a lung infection, and this is the second time in a month he's been admitted to a hospital. >> his lung problems go back to when he was jailed by taking on apartheid in fact he contracted tuberculosis during that 27 years he was in prison. and a clothing maker is now accused of abusing workers in argentina. the labels on the clothing might sound a little familiar.
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>> the conditions investigators found were brutal. >> reporter: the workshop was a cluttered mess. authorities finding sewing equipment only meters away from bunk beds. at another sweat shop, investigators found worn mattresses, unsanitary conditions. workers live there working up to 60 hours a week. >> these people were in a dreadful situation. they were really living there like animals. gustavo -- dedicated to fighting modern day slavery. he shot this video after police raid three workshops and you see as images as evidence in a federal complaint against three clothing manufacturers, zara iris and kra cruz.
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there's no evidence that the companies own ore operate the sweat shops, but investigators say there's definitely a link. >> they found labels, they also found designs which prove that all three of these workshops work for zara. cara cruz says they do not have any knowledge about clan tedest workshops. the spanish clothing giant which owns zara told a spanish newspaper that they're surprised an indignant about the complaint. we have no knowledge about the facts and we don't know what they're referring to, we have no tolerance when it comes to situations like this. we have audited the six manufacturers we have in argentina.
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>> back in 2011, the clothing manufacturer was fined $1.8 million by the government in where still after investigation showed dozens of bolivian and migrant workers were in conditions of slavery. >> the company says that zara has revealed a series of new external and internal initiatives to re-enforce control over the production chain. argentina has begun to crack down against trafficking. 12 sweat shops, 23 argentine and bolivian nationals were arrested. argentine and bolivian nationals were freed during the investigation of the case. >> you have to understand the socioeconomics of that part of
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the world in south america. buenos aries is the textile capital of the world and if you take into account that above litt bolivia is just north of it. a lot of indigenous bolivians are offered jobs in buenos aries, and the rings take their passports away and they're subjected to slavery conditions in the kinds of sweat shops that we saw in the story. that's a big, big story. and argentine officials are doing everything they can. about 3,000 of these workshops may be operating in and around the capital. >> how do they end up arresting these guys? it seems like it's a huge, huge problem. >> there's good cooperation
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between the ngos, the human rights groups in argentina and the police and there is an agency that specializes in targeting these groups. but again, it's a lot of money involved, there's a lot of economic interests and there's a lot of demand for the cheap clothes that can be produced in this kind of sweat shop and that's the reason why it's such a big problem, but the conditions that they found, these particular sweat shops are just so deplorable, so sad. >> you hear of this happening in other parts of the world where passports get taken and the people are basically indentured servants really. and 3,000 of them? >> really they're slaves. >> that's the word we should use here, because it is that sad and they're working in that kind of deplorable conditions. >> rafael romo with that story. so, breaking tv records? >> is it? >> amazingly so, it beats
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it lit up social media. check out the tweets there. we're going to have more on the series and it's finale, well, suzanne will in the next hour. don't go away for that. you'll find out what happens in the end. take a look at all this. gaza city, this is kids and they are playing on the beach, this is during a dust storm. and let's go to the u.s. now, hundreds of kids running around looking for easter eggs on the white house lawn, president obama and the first lady hosting the annual event that was in jeopardy because of automatic spending cuts. >> i think many of these little easter egg rolls. >> the first time fergie was the entertainment and it had a totally different feel. check out the next one. this is slovakia, there's a tradition there we're told for the guys to dress up in traditional outfits and splash women with cold water during

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